Section 13.039 - Testing of Package By Department(a) The department shall from time to time weigh or measure a package or an amount of any commodity that is kept or offered for sale, sold, or in the process of delivery, in order to determine:(1) if the commodity is of the amount or quantity represented; or(2) if the commodity is being offered for sale or sold in accordance with law.(b) If the department finds that a package or any lot of a commodity contains less of the commodity than the amount represented, the department may seize the package or the commodity as evidence.(c) A person commits an offense if the person or the person's employee or agent refuses to exhibit a commodity being sold or offered for sale at a given weight or quantity, or ordinarily sold in that manner, to the department for testing and proving as to quantity.Tex. Agric. Code § 13.039
Amended by Acts 2009, 81st Leg., R.S., Ch. 913, Sec. 5, eff. 9/1/2009. Acts 1981, 67th Leg., p. 1029, ch. 388, Sec. 1, eff. 9/1/1981.